26 November 2007

Shake: Salvation?

Okay, so I got a quick lesson in Shake today. Shake is a post production program. It does more than just stabilize the camera, but right now all I need is the stabilization. It works by tracking marks and aligning them. I have to assign trackers to marks and then manually align then when the program can't. It works amazingly well. The only problem is that it has a hard time dealing with the odd blurry frame in the sequence; it loses track and stops when it hits them. I've got some pretty strange angle changes and a lot of rocking in and out, so seeing the stabilized animation is quite amazing. Now, will I have the time to master Shake? Perhaps. After seeing what it can do I would like to get all of my stuff stabilized.


This is the introduction before being fixed by Shake:


There is an obvious jump in the camera. When I get back onto Shake I'll upload the stabilized version. Right now its too large to upload.

1 comment:

F said...

your style is really enjoyable, and I don't think this clip looks bad even before the 'shake' is fixed. : )Good luck with finals!